Template:Did you know nominations/Ed Barrow

Ed Barrow

 * ... that Baseball Hall of Fame executive Ed Barrow (pictured) discovered Honus Wagner, converted Babe Ruth into an outfielder, and pioneered the first uniform numbers?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/John Rolls
 * Comment: I'm not near done with this article (still a work in progress before GA and FA noms), but it's at 5x now. There's a bunch of things from this article that can be mixed and matched for this hook, and I'm open to anything

Created/expanded by Muboshgu (talk). Self nom at 19:01, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * ALT1... that Baseball Hall of Fame executive Ed Barrow (pictured) worked as a reporter and operated a hotel, movie theater, and soap-selling business?
 * ALT2... that Baseball Hall of Fame executive Ed Barrow (pictured) fought John L. Sullivan in an exhibition match?


 * Hook: I like all of them. Cited. Short enough.
 * Article: New enough, long enough. Well-referenced, but the Google News archives are not well formatted. No close paraphrasing.
 * Summary:Symbol question.svg Fix the formatting. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:45, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I hate that Reflinks can't do any better than that for Google News archives results, and I do intend to fully flesh out those references before I take this to GA, but to point out the DYK requirement on references, it just says no bare url's, and these aren't bare. I will start converting them now, and hopefully have them done before this hits the main page, since as I said, I am planning on taking this to GA. – Muboshgu (talk) 14:12, 19 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg If you say so. Those look essentially bare to me, but not in the guidelines to refuse on that alone. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:14, 21 July 2012 (UTC)